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Kicking Tires and Lighting Fires With Coyote From ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

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Actor Greg Tarzan Davis speaks on carrier life, pulling G’s and portraying Lt. Javy Machado, call sign “Coyote,” a fighter pilot with something to prove.

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Admonished for drunken and disorderly behavior this Civil War hero went on to save countless lives.

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